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        <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="JOS.20.1+JOS.20.2+JOS.20.3+JOS.20.4+JOS.20.5+JOS.20.6+JOS.20.7+JOS.20.8+JOS.20.9">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to live among them. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If the avenger of blood comes in pursuit, the elders must not surrender the fugitive, because the fugitive killed their neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They are to stay in that city until they have stood trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then they may go back to their own home in the town from which they fled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="JOB.17.1+JOB.17.2+JOB.17.3+JOB.17.4+JOB.17.5+JOB.17.6+JOB.17.7+JOB.17.8+JOB.17.9+JOB.17.10+JOB.17.11+JOB.17.12+JOB.17.13+JOB.17.14+JOB.17.15+JOB.17.16">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My spirit is broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">my days are cut short,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">the grave awaits me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Surely mockers surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">my eyes must dwell on their hostility.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">Who else will put up security for me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You have closed their minds to understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">therefore you will not let them triumph.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone denounces their friends for reward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">the eyes of their children will fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;God has made me a byword to everyone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">a man in whose face people spit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My eyes have grown dim with grief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">my whole frame is but a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The upright are appalled at this;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">and those with clean hands will grow stronger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;But come on, all of you, try again!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">I will not find a wise man among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My days have passed, my plans are shattered.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">Yet the desires of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">turn night into day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">in the face of the darkness light is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If the only home I hope for is the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if I say to corruption, &#8216;You are my father,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">and to the worm, &#8216;My mother&#8217; or &#8216;My sister,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">where then is my hope&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">who can see any hope for me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Will it go down to the gates of death?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="content">Will we descend together into the dust?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkROM">
        <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="ROM.5.1+ROM.5.2+ROM.5.3+ROM.5.4+ROM.5.5+ROM.5.6+ROM.5.7+ROM.5.8+ROM.5.9+ROM.5.10+ROM.5.11+ROM.5.12+ROM.5.13+ROM.5.14+ROM.5.15+ROM.5.16+ROM.5.17+ROM.5.18+ROM.5.19+ROM.5.20+ROM.5.21">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:1 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> boast in the hope of the glory of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Not only so, but we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">let us</span></span></span><span class="content"> also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">perseverance, character; and character, hope. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And hope does not put us to shame, because God&#8217;s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God&#8217;s wrath through him! </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For if, while we were God&#8217;s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone&#8217;s account where there is no law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God&#8217;s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man&#8217;s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God&#8217;s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></span></div>
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